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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this segment, Marcelo continues his discussion of the similarities between the invention of the printing press and open source software. He also talks about the Brazilian love of do-it-yourself technology. Brazilians, he says, have a natural tendency to try to craft their own technical solutions, even if the country is a relatively poor country. Open source software fits right into that... Topics: Marcelo Tas, Tas, Marcelo, Telecultura, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Brasil, DIY and freedom, overshot...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this segment, Lena Zuniga talks about her research on the way that Latin Americans are using free open source software. She says that speakers of minority languages, which are languages that are spoken only by small groups, find free open source software lets them localize software in their langauge. For-profit companies can't make it a priority to code for these langauges, because in... Topics: Lena Zuniga, Zuniga, Lena, Bellanet, Latin America, North America, economic development, developing...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this segment, Marcelo continues his discussion of innovative ways that Brazilian companies and the Brazilian people are using open source software. He also responds to my quetions about whether we will see a digital tipping point, and if so, how quickly will it tip? That's about as much Brazilian Portuguese as I could understand. I speak only a few words of Brazilian Portuguese, and so if... Topics: Marcelo Tas, Tas, Marcelo, Telecultura, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Brasil, DIY and freedom, overshot...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this segment, Lena Zuniga essentially flips Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Abraham Maslow, of course, said that humans need to first cover their basics like food, shelter, and then move up to more advanced needs like entertainment and information. Lena begins by saying that telecenters are present throughout much of Latin America. She says that there have been mixed results, of course, with... Topics: Lena Zuniga, Zuniga, Lena, Bellanet, Latin America, economic development, developing countries,...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this segment, Lena Zuniga introduces herself for the record and tells us about the project that brought her to the conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where this footage was filmed. The Institute funding her research is the International Development Research Center in Canada. That institute wanted to know what is happening with free open source software in Latin America and the Caribbean;... Topics: Lena Zuniga, Zuniga, Lena, Bellanet, Latin America, International Development Research Center,...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this segment, Marcelo continues talking about Brazilians love of tweaking technological solutions with limited resources. Brazilians even have a word for it: traquitana. (I hope I spelled that correctly. Someone please correct me if not). Marcelo gives the example here of favela (slum) dwellers using discarded lamps as TV antennaes. Software libre is popular in Brazil because it fits... Topics: Marcelo Tas, Tas, Marcelo, Telecultura, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Brasil, DIY and freedom, overshot...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this segment, Amy Wohl talks about the role that the developing world plays in the competition between free open source software and Microsoft. She notes that in India, for example, only one tenth of one percent (0.1%) of the residents have a PC in their homes. She says that in this kind of situation, Microsoft does not have the advantages that it has in the developed world. In India,... Topics: Amy Wohl, Wohl, Amy, India, Microsoft and the developing world, lower tier customers, customers too...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this segment, Lena Zuniga talks how open source software competes with consumer culture in Latin America. She says that advertising in Latin America urges people to upgrade computers on a rapid cycle, leading the consumer to believe that the computer they have just purchsed is already obsolete. But Lena says that, in the course of her work as a tech researcher, she found that many... Topics: Lena Zuniga, Zuniga, Lena, Bellanet, Latin America, North America, economic development, developing...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. This particular segment features Horst Brauener, the IT lead for the German City of Schwaebish Hall, which in German is sometimes called the "Linux City," due to the fact that most of the IT in the city runs on free open source software. In fact, in his interview with the DTP crew, Munich Mayor Christian Ude specifically refers to Schwaebisch Hall as an example of a city that has... Topics: Brauener, Horst, Horst Brauener, Schwaebisch Hall, cheaper, customers too small for market leader,...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. Thanks to Thomas King, a writer for Linux.com and LXer, for doing the rough editing for this series of interview segments! This series of 11 interview segments features John William Templeton, a widely published historian, journalist, and business commentator. John is president and executive editor of eAccess Corp. in San Francisco. As editor of the San Jose Business Journal, he helped... Topics: John William Templeton, Templeton, John William, Open Source In Developing World, WorldSpace, Lower...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. This particular segment features Lena Zuniga, a Program Officer for Bellanet International, a group which coordinates development with telecommunications in the developing world, from their base in Costa Rica. Lena's focus is Latin America and the Caribbean. In this snip, Lena says that free open source software is attractive to developing countries in Latin America and the Caribbean for... Topics: Lena Zuniga, Zuniga, Lena, Bellanet, Latin America, North America, economic development, developing...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. Thanks to Thomas King, a writer for Linux.com and LXer, for doing the rough editing for this series of interview segments! This series of 11 interview segments features John William Templeton, a widely published historian, journalist, and business commentator. John is president and executive editor of eAccess Corp. in San Francisco. As editor of the San Jose Business Journal, he helped... Topics: John William Templeton, Templeton, John William, Obstacles To Free Open Source Software,...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this segment, Amy Wohl points out that open source software is not limited to just operating systems, but also is present in applications, such as OpenOffice.org's competition with Microsoft Office. She says that it is not easy to tell what market share an application like OpenOffice.org has, because it is possible to do multiple installs legally from a single disk. There is one sound... Topics: Amy Wohl, Wohl, Amy, Messman, Jack, Jack Messman, rising tide of open source disruption, good...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. I really find Amy to be very engaging. She's got a great voice, and she never says "um" or "uh" or "like". In this segment, Amy explains how IBM is using commodity Linux to sell services, by adding value on tope of commodity open source software. IBM versus Microsoft is, of course, a theme that runs through our footage, because Microsoft is using FOSS to disrupt... Topics: Amy Wohl, Wohl, Amy, Messman, Jack, Jack Messman, rising tide of open source disruption, good...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this segment, Marcelo continues his discussion of Microsoft's public criticisms of the government of Brazil, which is arguably Microsoft's largest customer in South America. Marcelo then responds to my question about what are the recent big media events around software libre in the Brazilian and world media. One of the comments he makes, I *think* is that recent adoptions of open source... Topics: Marcelo Tas, Tas, Marcelo, Telecultura, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Brasil, customers too small for market...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this segment, Lena Zuniga talks about the environmental issues that concern Latin Americans. She said that to the extent that Latin America receives computers from North America, they are interested in receiving working computers, not junk. She says that her experience in working with computer technologists in Latin America is that these Latin Americans don't want to be perceived as the... Topics: Lena Zuniga, Zuniga, Lena, Bellanet, Latin America, North America, economic development, developing...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. This particular segment is a continuation of segment 01 of the Mayor's interview. Here, Mayor Pelgrim picks up mid-sentence from segment 01 and talks about savings that the City received in fewer hardware cycles, and controling software upgrades as well. Mayor Pelgrim says that Schwaebisch Hall saved 200,000 Euros in 2002 and 2003 by moving to open source software. That was not a large... Topics: Mayor of Schwaebisch Hall, Hermann-Josef Pelgrim, Pelgrim, Hermann-Josef, Schwaebisch Hall, Linux...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this particular segment, Jean Francois finishes his sentence from the previous snip, which he ends by saying that 45% of MandrakeSoft's revenues (at that time) were from North America. Here, he says that 20% of revenues came from France; 20% from the rest of Europe; and 15% from the rest of the world. He says that it is important for proprietary software to co-habitate with open souce... Topics: Mandrake, MandrakeSoft, Mandriva, Boncilhon, Jean Francois, Jean Francois Boncilhon, Linux,...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. This particular segment features Sergio Amadeu, who is the President of ITI Brazil, which is the Brazilian federal agency that answers to the President of Brazil on technological issues. In this snip, Sergio talks about how he came to head Brazil's ITI agency. He was responsible for creating telecenters in Sao Paulo, a city of 16 million people. These telecenters became very popular, and the... Topics: Sergio Amadeu, Amadeu, Sergio, Brazil ITI, President of Brazil's technology agency, Sergio's...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. Thanks to Thomas King, a writer for Linux.com and LXer, for doing the rough editing for this series of interview segments! This series of 11 interview segments features John William Templeton, a widely published historian, journalist, and business commentator. John is president and executive editor of eAccess Corp. in San Francisco. As editor of the San Jose Business Journal, he helped... Topics: John William Templeton, Templeton, John William, Obstacles To Free Open Source Software,...